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on April 1984The Hans W. Wynholds Company (HWW) of Cupertino, Calif., recently signed its third major maritime contract—a multi-year project with Maersk Line, Ltd. of New York—to provide computer hardware, software, documentation, training, and support for both shipboard and shoreside applications. The
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on April 1984The Heat Transfer Division of American Standard Inc. has appointed Bob McDonough as its new manager, product planning. Mr. McDonough comes to HTD with more than five years' experience in marketing capital equipment and eight years' experience as a chemical engineer. In his new position, Mr.
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on April 1984NKS is a joint venture of NAFINSA, the Mexican Development Bank, Kobe Steel, a leading Japanese steel producer, and SIDERMEX, the official steel consortium of Mexico. The erection of the casting, forging, and machine shop buildings, with the plant infrastructure, has been completed on schedule
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on April 1984Thomas L. Patterson has been promoted from vice president to president and general manager of Coastal Iron Works, Inc. of Corpus Christi, Texas. Youngest son of one of the company's founders and long-time presidents, Mr. Patterson joined Coastal in 1965, and was named secretary-treasurer in
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on April 1984Richard Faber has been promoted to marine/military sales manager in Aeroquip Corporation's Industrial Division marketing department, based in Jackson, Mich. Mr. Faber has more than nine years of Aeroquip sales experience. He was formerly an account executive in the Industrial Division's fa
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on April 1984Tokyo Marine Services Ltd., operator of eight oceangoing tugs and four 400-foot, semi-submersible barges, announces a status report on four major projects now under way or recently completed. The 12,000-bhp tug Dahlia has the semi-submersible rig Penrod 74 under tow en route from the Philip
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on April 1984Bestobell Mobrey, headquartered in Slough, Berkshire, England, part of the worldwide Bestobell group that specializes in component technologies, recently re-organized its export sales operations. The main changes involved locating regional executives in Europe and Southeast Asia to provide gre
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on April 1984Saint John Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Ltd., in New Brunswick, Canada, has chosen AUTOKON and AUTOFIT as its CAD/CAM systems for carrying out the big Canadian Navy Frigate Program contract. The Saint John yard has been awarded prime contractor responsibility for the detailed design, pr
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on April 1984Maritime Administrator H.E. Shear has announced the appointment of Alpha H. Ames Jr. as director of the MarAd Great Lakes Region and Francis J. O'Donnell as director of the Eastern Region. Each has been serving in an acting capacity. Mr. Ames succeeds George Ryan, who resigned from the age
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on January 15, 1984Don Juan Trujillano, commercial director of Astilleros Espanoles, the largest group of Spanish shipyards comprising major facilities at Cadiz, Santander, Bilbao, Sestao, and elsewhere, recently announced the appointment of Richard F. O'Boyle, Inc. of New York City and Aberdeen, N.J. as its
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on January 15, 1984Capt. William Lowell, USNR, chief operating engineer at Bath Iron Works Corporation (BIW), was the featured speaker at a recent dinner meeting of the Northern New England Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers. The meeting was held at the Commissioned Officers Club, Portsmouth Nav
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on January 15, 1984An anchor-handling/tug-supply vessel with rescue and antipollution features, the Val Cadore, was launched recently at the Viareggio, Italy, yard of Societa Esercizio Cantieri (SEC). Built for Cispa Gas Transport S.p.A. of Trieste, the vessel is a new SEC design for the Italian flag, propelle
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on January 15, 1984COMSAT recently announced a corporate reorganization designed to improve the firm's ability to organize and articulate its strategic business activities, and also announced the election of new senior officers. John L. McLucas, president of COMSAT World Systems Division since 1980, has been
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on January 15, 1984Seaworthy Engine Systems, Inc. of Essex, Conn, has announced a shortened corporate name. The new name, Seaworthy Systems, Inc., will better reflect the increased scope of company engineering activities, according to David A. O'Neil, president of the firm. The 10-year-old company has become
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on January 15, 1984Michigan Wheel Gulf Coast, Inc. of Pascagoula, Miss., has been awarded a $898,714 contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command for the manufacture of four attack aircraft carrier propellers and an additional propeller for a Navy oiler. The carrier propellers are fivebladed and will weigh appro
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on January 15, 1984A new series of battery-operated, digital web deflection indicators is now available from Indikon Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. The Indikon 4000 Series indicators feature bearing-mounted, live centers providing deflection readings over a plus or minus 20 mils range on diesel engines, pumps
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on January 15, 1984Carmen Guide Jr. has been named president and chief executive officer of Lake Shore, Inc. of Iron Mountain/Kingsford, Mich. He replaces James T. Malsack, who has been appointed chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Guide began his Lake Shore career in 1961 as a sales manager for marine produ
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on January 15, 1984Europort 83, the 21st International Maritime Exhibition that was held recently at the RAI International Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam, was a resounding success in all respects, according to the organizer. At the close of the exhibition, many companies that had exhibited confirmed that they
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on January 15, 1984Jacobson Shipyard of Oyster Bay, N.Y., recently delivered the twinscrew tug Chessie, first of two under construction for the Chessie System. Specifically designed for shipdocking, they will service Chessie System's coal facilities at Newport News, Va. The tug Chessie has an overall length of
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on January 15, 1984Brown & Root Inc. of Houston has formed a joint venture in Holland with its Netherland subsidiary and two Dutch shipyards to pursue work in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. Brown & Root, a Halliburton Company, is one of the world's largest and most diversified engineering and construction